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Retail reaction to first Thomson’s, then Maytag’s, direct-to-consumer sales models is ranging from bemused indifference to surprise and outrage. Most merchants and buying groups...
Best Buy established an Internet subsidiary last week, BestBuy.com, which will absorb all of the chain’s e-commerce personnel and assets and set web strategies...
Never mind the Thomas Wolfe line that you can’t go home again. For Ronald Unkefer, who retakes the reins of The Good Guys next...
Four months after adding electronics to its product mix, Amazon.com has doubled its CE assortment and spun off its software offerings into a separate...
In the latest round of Internet alignments, etown.com has formed a partnership with number-one CE retailer Best Buy. Under the multi-year agreement, etown, the...
CINCINNATI — While Wards has retrofitted nearly a third of its stores, arch rival Sears is still in the prototype stage of its own...
LAS VEGAS — Demonstrating its commitment to independent dealers while forging new discount distribution channels, GE Appliances sent its general manager of merchandising, Dave...
How are conventional electronics retailers responding to the new Internet interlopers? In a word, aggressively. Taking a page from the “best defense is a...
Key America, the $3.5 billion buying group, has entered the e-commerce space by launching its first selling site, and by forging an online alliance...
The heads of the nation’s three largest consumer electronics chains took on such hot-button issues as direct-to-consumer sales by manufacturers and the future of...
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIF. — BSH Home Appliances said it will not exhibit at the Kitchen and Bath Industry Show (K/BIS) in Orlando next April...
Taking stock of its enhanced buying clout, a newly enlarged Nationwide TV & Appliances laid out a five-year plan to members last week that...
Matching last year’s record fourth-quarter sales performance will be no mean feat, but retailers are confident that they’ll do just that during the first...
CEMA says that online sales of consumer electronics will reach $14 billion, or 13% of total industry volume, by 2002. The projection, based on...
CHICAGO — Let there be light. That, seemingly, was the marching order Montgomery Ward chairman Roger Goddu gave his store planners, designers and visual...
LAS VEGAS — At its largest-ever convention and buying fair, held here at the Paris Hotel last week, Associated Volume Buyers (AVB) implored its...
NEWTON, IOWA– Maytag’s second-generation Neptune washer went into production last month and should begin hitting store floors nationwide next week. According to Brett Noser,...
The combination of a new generation of innovative digital products and a still feisty, if long-in-the-tooth bull market, is proving to be an irresistible...
Savoring solid sales gains in most product sectors while girding itself for the new millennium, the NATM Buying Corporation turned out for a buoyant...
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — Sears has assigned a high priority to developing a national chain of freestanding electronics and/or appliances stores and is expected...
Associated Volume Buyers is embarking on a $20 million national advertising campaign that will position the buying groups’ 2,400 members as a single retail...
HOFFMAN ESTATES, ILL. — Sears has begun selling replacement parts for its Kenmore line of home appliances. The No. 1 majap merchant is initially...
New York was abuzz with e-commerce clatter late last month when the fifth annual Internet & Electronic Commerce Conference and Exposition (iEC ’99) rolled...
LAS VEGAS — The timing was uncanny. As word of Wal-Mart’s majap plans, a possible Frigidaire/ Maytag marriage, and Whirl-pool’s stock woes hit the...
West Carrolton, OH — Roberds, the long-struggling furniture, appliance and electronics chain, has ceased operations. The 29-year-old retailer, which has been operating under Chapter...
Sears has partnered with America Online in the latest alliance between a national retailer and a major ISP. The cross marketing agreement, announced this...
New York — One year ago the future seemed bright for Brandwise.com. Riding the wave of e-commerce mania, the cyber start-up came into being...
NEW YORK — Last week was a busy one for RadioShack. Within the span of two days, the nation’s No. 4 CE retailer officially...
In cyberspace, no one can hear you scream. Otherwise, the din from e-tailers and retailers would have been deafening when Internet powerhouse Amazon.com added...
New York – Sony plans to begin selling a wide assortment of competitively priced CE products directly to consumers this week via SonyStyle.com, the...
“We can’t spend enough to shout above the clutter of Christmas, so we won’t shout about it,” said Henry Chiarelli, executive VP and general...
The NATM Buying Corporation has begun to embrace the Internet. Though still trailing more web-savvy groups, notably Associated Volume Buyers with its b-to-c selling...
The nation’s top appliance retailers and buying groups shrugged off news of The Home Depot’s expansion plans for white goods but conceded that they...
Fort Worth, Texas — Nearly one year after forging their ISP pact, RadioShack and Microsoft began selling broadband service today in 5,800 of the...
OfficeMax president John Martin is leaving the office supply superstore and his position will be eliminated as part of an organizational restructuring. The new...
The following study presents original research on shoppers’ online buying behavior within the consumer electronics category. The report, based on consumer polls, is the...
PARK RIDGE, N.J. — Sony said it will begin selling a wide assortment of competitively priced CE products directly to consumers via SonyStyle.com, the...
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — Sears said it is studying plans to build freestanding consumer electronics and major appliance stores. Outgoing chairman and CEO Arthur...
Newton, Iowa — Months after rumors began circulating of Maytag’s possible purchase by Electrolux, a report in today’s New York Times has refanned the...
Several major ISP deals were brokered this week in a flurry of activity that saw top consumer electronics retailers teaming up with the leading...
RadioShack is opening a 20,000-square-foot test store that is configured as brick & mortar incarnation of the chain’s e-commerce site. The store, called RadioShack.com,...
A sizzling economy, aggressive store openings, and a rash of new and more affordable digital devices helped sales at the nation’s top 100 consumer...